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Culture and Eurocentrism
Contributor(s): Ismail, Qadri (Author)

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 ISBN: 1783486341     ISBN-13: 9781783486342
Publisher: Rlpg/Galleys
OUR PRICE: $61.95  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Movements - Deconstruction
- Social Science | Human Geography
- Philosophy | Movements - Critical Theory
Dewey: 909.8
LCCN: 2015026668
Series: Disruptions
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" L (0.70 lbs) 238 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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The conviction that we all have, possess or inhabit a discrete culture, and have done so for centuries, is one of the more dominant default assumptions of our contemporary politico-intellectual moment. However, the concept of culture as a signifier of subjectivity only entered the modern Anglo-U.S. episteme in the late nineteenth century. Culture and Eurocentrism seeks to account for the term's relatively recent emergence and movement through the episteme, networked with many other concepts - nature, race, society, imagination, savage, and civilization- at the confluence of several disciplines. Culture, it contends, doesn't describe difference but produces it, hierarchically. In so doing, it seeks to recharge postcoloniality, the critique of eurocentrism.

Contributor Bio(s): Ismail, Qadri: - Qadri Ismail is Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota.
 
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